Killing Me Softly by Kathryn R. Biel

Author:Kathryn R. Biel [Biel, Kathryn R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kathryn R. Biel
Published: 2015-07-02T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

He waits until I have a mouthful of scrambled eggs before he asks his next question. Fitzy is really good at catching me off guard; I'll give him that.

"So, what's going on with you and Jenna?"

He knows a lot of the history. He saw us close, and then not close. Well, at least he should have. He was just a boy and could have been quite unobservant at the time.

"What do you remember about how Jenna and I got along?"

He pauses for a minute and takes a sip of coffee. He's not eating the eggs. He made them just for me. It makes me feel special and loved, which I know is stupid, but let's face it, my brain is not firing on all pistons at the moment.

"You were always in cahoots, and then you couldn't stand each other. Used to drive Brady crazy the way you two fought. He always wanted to come over to my house, just to be away from the drama. Have things not improved?

"Um, that's putting it mildly." Chewing again. This man could cook. He's still looking at me, waiting for an answer. "Jenna has spent her life being Jenna. Spoiled, selfish, and mean. For some reason, she has taken it upon herself to make me miserable every chance she gets."

"How so?"

"I think the big one is that she had an affair with my boyfriend, got him to propose to her instead of me, and then ended up causing a car accident that killed him."

"Oh, right. I remember hearing about the accident."

"So you remember the gory details." He nods, encouraging me to go on. "And, the icing on the cake is that she's pregnant with his child."

"Jenna's pregnant?" Even though he's asking a question, there isn't any surprise to his voice. Maybe no one sees how badly this is going to go but me.

"Yeah. It's going to be a disaster. She isn't fit to be someone's mother. She's not even fit to be a human being."

"You know, your mom thinks something happened to her. That she's missing. What do you think?"

Do I tell him what I think? Do I tell him what happened here the other night? I can't. I now know, in hindsight, that I did the wrong thing. I'm going to have to deal with it at some point, but I don't want Fitzy to know what I did. Not yet.

It doesn't matter, either way, because we're interrupted by a banging on the door. Fitzy jumps up. "Let me get it. You stay put." It's a statement, not a suggestion. His voice has an air of authority to it. He's a lot different than the last time I saw him. Yet, still, the same and familiar. He definitely likes being in charge. Fitzy being here, showing up like this, picking up like the last seventeen years haven't happened, is sort of off-putting. At least enough to knock me off my bearings. Not as if that's hard at the moment.

"Oh my God, Sadie! Are you all right?" I can hear Max's voice before he reaches my kitchen.

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